A Journey up the Cuyuni. 
By Michael MoTurk. 
H REE separate parties of Indians having reported 
that some Venezuelans were making boats up 
the Cuyuni, and some Venezuelans having come 
down that river, and others having been seen in the 
forest in the neighbourhood of the Penal Settlement, it 
seemed right that I should ascend the Cuyuni to investi- 
gate the state ot the inhabitants of the upper reaches of 
the river. Accordingly I left Kalacoon on the Mazaruni 
on Thursday 14th October, 1880. 
Rain began to fall before we left, and the aeta-balli 
and hackea {Tecotna sp.?) trees were budding — a sure 
sign of the approach of wet weather. Rain continued 
to fall from the 14th to 18th, the first three days after 
leaving, and the river commenced to swell, and the down- 
ward current to increase so much that we did not reach 
Warriri, the place where the Gold Mining Company 
carried on operations some years ago, until Saturday 
evening. The place is now overgrown with bushes and 
creepers, but the house still stands, though much out of 
repair. Here I saw recent tracks of persons wearing 
boots, who had remained for some time and had slept 
under the house ; there was also a buoy, such as is used 
for fishing lines, in the river opposite. Shortly after 
passing Warriri we saw a broken paddle in the water 
under the bushes and a little further a half-made paddle. 
